Submitted 11 hours ago by ampersandrew@lemmy.world to games@lemmy.world
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In a deal involving a company owned by Jared Kushner, a company that is basically just the Saudis, and $20B of debt.
Rest in peace Mass Effect.
Old BioWare did splinter into Archetype and are working on “Exodus.” I am not yet sold, but looks more like a harder sci-fi, since traveling at near FTL is actually one way time travel.
Hard, relatavistic sci fi can still get super weird, see: www.orionsarm.com/eg-article/48545a0f6352a
So how long before the private equity firms strip mine EA for all it’s worth, and force it to rent back it’s offices, which force it to bankruptcy?
What do you mean “before”? This right now is the start of that.
A link too the article in the skeet. businesswire.com/…/EA-Announces-Agreement-to-be-A…
It was pretty dry, so I opted for the skeet instead.
Could it be that these guys are going to “Where are we going, Papa EA?” them in a few years?
(Can’t find a link to the references comic on my phone but basically EA is known for buying up smaller studios and then closing them only a few years later after sucking them dry. This led to a comic of them taking little unsuspecting companies into the dark woods to end them.)
I won be purchasing anything EA.
Weird how everyone is mad or upset about EA going out of business. I look at this as a positive. EA makes 90% shit games and 10% games that are unique or could be good that I refuse to buy on the grounds that it is still owned by EA.
If the few decent IPs get sold off to a different company I might actually buy it as long as it’s not one of the other mega shit companies. At least now there’s a chance.
Damn, it really happened. Crazy.
So basically EA got tired of watching Ubisoft and Nintendo fight over who is worse and dropped a nuke.
Wow did not see this coming. Saudi Arabia is desperate to diversify so from that angle it makes sense. Kushner wants in lol. That’s a big buyout though. Well, things are going to get weird.
You can bid the chance of having (good) Mass Effect games good bye.
Pretty sure that ship sailed like 10 years ago.
I liked Andromeda.
This is apparently a game made by some of the old guard at BioWare.
Reminds me a bit of Andromeda mixed with ME1. Less focus on being part of a military organization from what I see.
So romance options…
HAH! the sims is about to get nuked
It’ll be interesting seeing how the worst games company manages to find a way to become even worse.
I wonder if there’s any entities that they do partnerships with that have provisions in their contracts against this, curious if the sports leagues do. They’re notoriously protective of their IPa and rights
Tronn4@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
EA, Its not in the game